House hunting advice
Hi. I'm moving to the area from Elkhart and looking for affordable places to live. My parents are pretty overprotective and are trying to make me reconsider places like Gary and Michigan City because of safety....but I've lived in Elkhart for 15 years in a low income neighborhood and actually kind of love it. I'm a quiet neighbor and keep to myself, liberal, ACAB and all that. But also I'm a single white woman living alone with a dog. I feel like I'll be fine kind of anywhere if I'm fine in Elkhart and was fine for a brief stint in downtown South Bend, but my folks are from Valpo so they have a very different idea of what is acceptable as far as safety. I don't really want to go back to living somewhere I almost never see people of color and there's almost no ethnic food besides Mexican and Chinese, but I also don't want my folks to worry too much about me. Can anyone currently living in either Gary or Michigan City either (politely) tell my folks they're wrong or tell me I'm being dumb (doesn't have to be polite)?